Music in Support of Black Mental Health

Jlin, Nina Kraviz and Jeff Mills are heading to Red Bull Music Festival 2018

A five-week run of events will take place in Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of Red Bull Music Academy

Lena Willikens

Lena Willikens, Batu and Object Blue to play Berlin Atonal 2018

The four-day event will take place at Kraftwerk on 22-26 August

Electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani to perform in Berlin this July

The electronic music pioneer is coming to Berlin for a special Buchla performance next month

Drag Queens / Berlin / Post-Drag © Vitali Gelwich

The Divine Queer Secrets of Berlin’s Post-Drag Sisterhood

Eight figures of Berlin’s thriving underground queer-performance scene discuss their art and how to define drag in an increasingly genderless, post-drag world

Listen to Peaches and Lotic discuss the Berlin queer scene and the origins of their sound

Introducing Berlin: Then & Now, a podcast series exploring the city’s rich musical past, present…

Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin to play his first show in Berlin in 15 years

The pioneering artist will play the Funkhaus this year

Berlin’s club community aims to block far-right AfD march

An extensive list of clubs are set to come together and disrupt the demonstration on 27 May

Berlin’s ELSE announces summer schedule

Olof Dreijer, Ivan Smagghe, Omar Souleyman, Optimo and more will play at the venue this year

The Knife’s Olof Dreijer and Omar Souleyman to play Crack Magazine Open Air party

This summer, Crack Magazine invites some of our favourite names in contemporary electronic music to Berlin

Alienata

Berlin’s Killekill to celebrate 10 years with Alienata, Cassegrain and more

The party crew will celebrate their 10th anniversary on 8 June

Suicide Circus reveals line-up for ninth anniversary weekend

The Berlin club will celebrate its birthday on 22-25 June

Lotic announces debut album Power

The Berlin-based producer will release their long-awaited debut this summer

Bill Murray to perform New Worlds at the Berliner Philharmoniker

The actor is heading to Berlin for a live performance

Sonos open new store in Berlin with Tony Visconti, Gudrun Gut and Alison Goldfrapp celebrating David Bowie

Sonos’ new Concept Store is located in the heart of Mitte

Here’s what went down at The Streets’ first live show in seven years

Intimate and sincere, The Streets long-awaited live return reminded us of everything we’ve missed

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Pan Daijing and John Maus confirmed for Berlin festival Pop-Kultur

The German event has announced its first wave of acts for 2018

Tresor announces spring programme

Nights featuring Ziúr, Move D, Ploy and more are lined up for April

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Kylie Minogue at Berghain: A mix of the old, the new and the unexpected

For decades, the popstar has sold out arenas around the world with her helium-high bangers. Berghain, however, is a far cry from her usual performance venue

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto announce more live shows

The duo have confirmed dates for London, Berlin and Barcelona

Alva Noto‘s Funkhaus show was an immersive barrage on the senses

Carsten Nicolai managed to captivate his audience with a bold, audiovisual onslaught – despite the technical difficulties

Fever Ray live in Berlin © POP-EYE / Wengel

Fever Ray’s lust-fuelled live show brings Plunge to shocking, vivid life

Karin Dreijer and her band of queerdos reach for the body paint and PVC in a theatrical show that revels in its own subversion

Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke and Brian Eno to showcase 360-degree audiovisual shows in Berlin

Berlin’s Institute for Sound and Music will host an immersive exhibition from 29 March to 22 April

Nils Frahm at Funkhaus Berlin

The Hamburg-born composer deconstructs the creative process behind his latest LP All Melody at the studio he now calls home – the Funkhaus

Zeina

Cairo’s Zeina brings atmosphere and energy to this alluring hour-long Crack Mix

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Roi Perez and Roman Flügel step up for Berlin festival Her Damit

Her Damit will stage its fourth edition in an abandoned military site north of the city on 8-10 June

New techno festival 5001 makes first artist announcement

The three-day event will bring the rave to an abandoned bunker in Berlin on 17-19 August

Berliner Festspiele announce 10-day programme featuring four projects from Terre Thaemlitz

Berliner Festspiele have announced details of the programme for MaerzMusik – a 10-day schedule of…

Read an exclusive extract from Rave On, a new book telling the story of global club culture

‘Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music’ is the new work by journalist Matthew Collin, author of ‘Altered State’

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Nils Frahm: Resonate Deeply

Nils Frahm remoulds classical music for this century. We travelled to Frahm’s custom-built Berlin studio to find an artist looking forward while preserving the past

Berlin club Renate reveals 35-hour line-up for New Year’s Eve

The bookings feature Jennifer Cardini, Justin Van Der Volgen, Cassegrain and more